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| − | + | {{hdr/myth|Liberal fiscal policies create more debt.}} | |
| − | + | ==Myth== | |
| + | Liberal policies cause more debt, while [[disconservatism|"conservative"]] policies reduce it. | ||
| + | ==Reality== | ||
This is the opposite of the truth. From a fiscal viewpoint, liberal policies tend to do two things: | This is the opposite of the truth. From a fiscal viewpoint, liberal policies tend to do two things: | ||
* Engage in common-good investment that: | * Engage in common-good investment that: | ||
** improves the economy over the long term (and often in the short term as well, e.g. stimulus spending) | ** improves the economy over the long term (and often in the short term as well, e.g. stimulus spending) | ||
** disproportionately benefits those with the most need | ** disproportionately benefits those with the most need | ||
| − | * | + | * Where spending is increased, taxes -- especially on those with the most surplus, i.e. the rich -- are increased to pay for the spending. |
| + | * Liberal policies and laws frequently provide more overall benefit without actually being more expensive than existing policies and laws. | ||
| + | ** {{l/ip|Obamacare}}, for example, was projected to be deficit-neutral (despite repeated right-wing claims that we "can't afford it") and is actually turning out to save more money than expected. | ||
| − | The anti-liberal {{l/ip|mainstream media}} tends to dishonestly {{l/ip|interpretive framing|frame}} such responsible, forward-looking policies as "tax-and-spend" -- leaving many people with the image of personally being drained by taxation in order to pay for heedless liberal indulgence; an equally honest phrase for [[ | + | [[File:405875 2404492924164 601932573 n Tax-and-Spend liberal.jpg|thumb|Spot the Tax-And-Spend Liberal]] |
| + | The anti-liberal {{l/ip|mainstream media}} tends to dishonestly {{l/ip|interpretive framing|frame}} such responsible, forward-looking policies as "tax-and-spend" -- leaving many people with the image of personally being drained by taxation in order to pay for heedless liberal indulgence; an equally honest phrase for [[disconservatism|"conservative"]] policies would be "'''borrow'''-and-spend", since that has been the historical pattern for Republican/"conservative" administrations since the Reagan era. | ||
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| + | "Conservative" – a misnomer for "Republican" – policies have been largely responsible for the deficit-growth [[Myths/federal debt is now at an all-time high|that "conservatives" like to complain about]]. | ||
==Claim Examples== | ==Claim Examples== | ||
"Soon, I fear, this nation will become bankrupt and it we will be turned over to the communists/Marxists/socialists/liberal/progressives that have been weighing down our spending by encouraging deadbeats to go on welfare and suck this nation dry." - [https://plus.google.com/u/0/102282887764745350285/posts/YrifdxFWGCy Google+, 2014-02-08] | "Soon, I fear, this nation will become bankrupt and it we will be turned over to the communists/Marxists/socialists/liberal/progressives that have been weighing down our spending by encouraging deadbeats to go on welfare and suck this nation dry." - [https://plus.google.com/u/0/102282887764745350285/posts/YrifdxFWGCy Google+, 2014-02-08] | ||
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Latest revision as of 00:41, 27 December 2015
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| Myth: Liberal fiscal policies create more debt. |
Myth
Liberal policies cause more debt, while "conservative" policies reduce it.
Reality
This is the opposite of the truth. From a fiscal viewpoint, liberal policies tend to do two things:
- Engage in common-good investment that:
- improves the economy over the long term (and often in the short term as well, e.g. stimulus spending)
- disproportionately benefits those with the most need
- Where spending is increased, taxes -- especially on those with the most surplus, i.e. the rich -- are increased to pay for the spending.
- Liberal policies and laws frequently provide more overall benefit without actually being more expensive than existing policies and laws.
- Obamacare, for example, was projected to be deficit-neutral (despite repeated right-wing claims that we "can't afford it") and is actually turning out to save more money than expected.
The anti-liberal mainstream media tends to dishonestly frame such responsible, forward-looking policies as "tax-and-spend" -- leaving many people with the image of personally being drained by taxation in order to pay for heedless liberal indulgence; an equally honest phrase for "conservative" policies would be "borrow-and-spend", since that has been the historical pattern for Republican/"conservative" administrations since the Reagan era.
"Conservative" – a misnomer for "Republican" – policies have been largely responsible for the deficit-growth that "conservatives" like to complain about.
Claim Examples
"Soon, I fear, this nation will become bankrupt and it we will be turned over to the communists/Marxists/socialists/liberal/progressives that have been weighing down our spending by encouraging deadbeats to go on welfare and suck this nation dry." - Google+, 2014-02-08